This summer's Olympics has been a good lesson in the necessity of working around networks' and video providers' often ridiculous restrictions based on location and timing. On YouTube, there's often a simple work-around, as explained by the Google Operating System blog. Most YouTube links look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEOID
You'll find a string of characters where
VIDEOID
is. Copy that string, and paste it like so:http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEOID
You'll get a copy of the video meant for embedding, one that doesn't care as much about where you're watching from.